Fish lure



Oct. 3, 1950 E. E. WHITE 2,524,370

FISH LURE Filed NOV. 25, .1947

INVENTOR.

EL /3E M/H/VTE Patented Oct. 3, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FISHLURE Ellis E. White, Bremerton, Wash. Application November 25, 1947,Serial No. 787,935

2 Claims. (Cl. 43-42.48)

This invention relates to fish lures, and it has reference moreparticularly to lures of those types known as plugs, designed for use incatching such game fish as salmon, trout, bass and other kinds of fishthat feed upon or are attracted by minnows, herring and other small fishand which can be attracted by bait that simulates the swimming action ofa crippled minnow or herring.

It is the principal object of this invention to provide improvements inthe plug which was described and illustrated in my co-pendingapplication filed on April 19, 1946, under Serial No. 663,262,particularly in the design and surface characteristics of the nose endof the plug, whereby the plug when pulled through the water as introlling, is caused to simulate the swimming actions of a crippledminnow, in that it will alternately produce a normal swimming action andthen a sidewise swimming action.

More specifically stated, the objects of the present invention reside inthe novel details embodied in the nose or nose surface of the plug andthe method of shaping or forming this surface.

In accomplishing the above mentioned and other objects of the invention,later apparent, I have provided the improved details of construction,the preferred forms of which are illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, wherein- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a fish lure or plugembodying the improvements of the present invention therein.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the nose end portion of the plug, showing thestepped arrangement of inclined surfaces on the forward end of the body.

Fig. 3 is a forward end elevation of the plug.

Fig. 4 is a top view of that part of the plug shown in Fig. 2.

Referring more in detail to the drawings- The present lure comprises aplug designated in its entirety by reference numeral I0, having anelongated body which may be Wood, plastic or other suitable material,round in cross-section and gradually tapered along its rearward endportion and terminating in a rounded point I2 at its forward, or frontend, the body II] has a fiat end surface l3, which is formed by cuttingthe body at an angle; the angle of the out being approximately 45 withrespect to the axial line of the plug, and it forms a sloping surfaceextending from the bottom side of the plug, rearwardly and upwardlyapproximately two-thirds the distance through the body, and is boundedacross the top edge of this flat surface I3 with a forwardly anddownwardly facing shoulder [4 that is perpenvdicular to the plane of thesurface I3. Above the plane of the surface I 3 is a second inclined orbeveled surface designated at I5. This surface extends from shoulder I4upwardly and terminates short of the upper surface of the plug in anabrupt downwardly and forwardly facing surface or shoulder IS. Thesurface I6 is perpendicular to the plane of surface I5.

The preferred means for forming these forward end surfaces I3 and I5 ofthe plug comprises a disk saw of about four inches in diameter, to whichthe plug is applied at the desired angle. In Fig. 2 I have indicated bya numeral 2I a disk saw on a drive shaft 22. By cutting into the plugblank, then stepping it down to the thickness of th cut and making asecond cut, the two surfaces l5 and I 3 will be formed, as will also theshoulders I4 and I6. The surfaces I3 and I5 will be parallel to eachother and the shoulders will be perpendicular thereto and inwardlyrounded in accordance with the curvature of the peripheral edge of thesaw.

Applied to the plug along its under side are rings, clips or othersuitable means, as at 24, for the securement of a line 25 and hooks 26.However, hooks might be attached in any other suitable manner. Appliedto the forward end surface of the plug in the central plane and at thelevel of the lower shoulder I4, is an eyelet 30 to which a fish line orleader would be attached.

By so forming the nose or forward end of the plug with the flat,rearwardly and upwardly sloping surfaces, and by providing at the top ofthe plug, the two shoulders I4 and I6, the novel and desired action,simulating the swimming of a crippled minnow or herring, results.

It is not desired to limit the claims to the process of or means formaking the plug, but to base the claims on the structure of the plugitself, characterized by the rearwardly and upwardly sloping, offsetsurfaces I3 and I5, and the arouately curvedshoulders M and [6, locatednear the top of the plug and perpendicular to the sloping surfaces.

Such plugs may be made in various sizes and proportions, but the shapeas illustrated in Fig. 1 is now most desirable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A fish lure of plug type having its forward end beveled to form aflat, upwardly and rearwardly sloping surface extending from the bottomedge of the plug to above the axial line, a shoulder formed across thesaid beveled end and providing, on its under side, a forwardly andupwardly sloping surface continuing from the top edge of saidrearwardly, sloping flat surface, and providing on its top side arearwardly and upwardly sloping surface, and said plug having arearwardly and downwardly beveled surface across its top edge merginginto the back edge of the top surface of said transverse shoulder, and aline attaching eye applied to the forward end of the plug in theshoulder forming portion and in the vertical axial plane of the plug.

2. A fish lure as recited in claim 1 wherein the 4 forwardly andupwardly sloping shoulder surfaces are upwardly arched between theirends.

ELLIS E. WHITE.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS 10 Number Name Date 2,100,289 Khoenle Nov. 23,1937 2,256,173 Schechterle Sept. 16, 194i

